Paragraph Autonumbering in RoboHelp 8

This is the third post of the ‘RoboHelp 8 List’ blog series. In this blog we will focus on ‘Paragraph Autonumbering’ functionality.

1. What is Paragraph Autonumbering?
Many times we need to create captions with numbering for images or tables, or simply number the sections etc.; for example in this blog heading of all the sections are auto-numbered. Paragraph Autonumbering can prove to be very effective in such cases.

Paragraph Autonumbering allows user to define a paragraph style with numbering or bullets. When the user applies paragraph style to pre-selected text, RoboHelp adds pre-defined paragraph numbering to the text. Auto numbered paragraph content is similar to a multilevel list content. The scope of Numbering is at the topic level.

2. How to create Paragraph Autonumbering?
You can create an auto numbered paragraph style using button. ‘List for Autonumbering’ dialog will popup.
To make auto numbering (as shown above), do the following
• Select ‘Numbering’
• Do the required prefix formatting
• Apply ‘Prefix Style’ (Optional)
• Press ‘OK’

4. Why Paragraph Autonumbering?
• Different users may visualize their document structure differently. When you visualize the content as paragraph not as a list you should create paragraph Autonumbering.
• When you need to create a list repetitively, then using Autonumbered Paragraph takes single step to auto number it.

Hope you found this blog series on ‘RoboHelp 8 List’ functionality useful. Please continue to share your valuable feedback with us.

5 thoughts to “Paragraph Autonumbering in RoboHelp 8”

I know it’s a really old post but I was unable to find any information online. I need to number the Figures across all topis and keep the numbering continuity. Is there a way to achieve that in Robohelp 9? I was unable to figure it out, the autonumbering in Paragraph style restarts at “1” in every topic, and I’d like the Figure numbers to continue all through the project without restarting.
Thanks in advance for your help.

Two questions: i) is it possible to have autonumbering across different topics? For example, I have two tables, one in Topic_A.html, and one in Topic_B.html. Can I use autonumbering to automatically number the table captions as Table 1: and then Table 2:? ii) Is it possible to insert a cross-reference to an autonumber? For example, if in Topic_A.html we have the caption numbered Table 1:, can I insert a cross reference similar to “See Table 1 for more details.” (Similar to Frame’s x-ref capability.)

How can I decrease the amount of space after the autonumber? My figures require only two spaces between the period and the caption. Also, for my equations, I don’t want any space at all after the number since they are right-aligned.

Spaces are controlled by the “\t” after the Auto-number property of the paragraph, so to reduce or increase the spaces you need to adjust the value of “Tab stops” defined for the paragraph and in case you don’t want to have any spaces then simply remove the “\t” after the auto-number.

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